Award: Dragonair flight HKG-KTM is not bookable.
Aug 31, 2009, 9:47 am
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Award: Dragonair flight HKG-KTM is not bookable.
According to Qantas agent, Dragonair flight between HKG-KTM(Kathmandu) is not bookable by their system.
One of the agent said; These flights(KA127/128) are marketed as Dragonair but operated by Cathay Pacific, therefore cannot be booked as award travel???
I haven't booked Dragonair flight as Qantas award ticket, so I have no idea if it's true. I have tried 3 phone calls.
One of the agent said; These flights(KA127/128) are marketed as Dragonair but operated by Cathay Pacific, therefore cannot be booked as award travel???
I haven't booked Dragonair flight as Qantas award ticket, so I have no idea if it's true. I have tried 3 phone calls.
Aug 31, 2009, 3:49 pm
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Sep 1, 2009, 11:41 pm
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No, the agents said "there are no such flight" or "the flight is marketes as Dragonairr but operated by Cathay(which is not), so you cannot book(which is also wierd)"
I checked award seat availability at BA.com before I called.
There were 4 award seats available on both out-/inbound flights.
As of today, there are still award seats available on the dates I want to book.
I checked award seat availability at BA.com before I called.
There were 4 award seats available on both out-/inbound flights.
As of today, there are still award seats available on the dates I want to book.
Sep 2, 2009, 12:30 am
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No, the agents said "there are no such flight" or "the flight is marketes as Dragonairr but operated by Cathay(which is not), so you cannot book(which is also wierd)"
I checked award seat availability at BA.com before I called.
There were 4 award seats available on both out-/inbound flights.
I checked award seat availability at BA.com before I called.
There were 4 award seats available on both out-/inbound flights.
Is the BA system showing availability under the KA flight number or the CX number?
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Sep 2, 2009, 2:27 am
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CX makes special inventory available to BAEC (this is because MPC is/was joint with BA), so it is entirely possible that there is award inventory that is bookable by BAEC but not available to QFF (or Aadvantage, etc.). You would have to use CX or BA to redeem for these awards in this case.
Sep 2, 2009, 7:13 am
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CX makes special inventory available to BAEC (this is because MPC is/was joint with BA), so it is entirely possible that there is award inventory that is bookable by BAEC but not available to QFF (or Aadvantage, etc.). You would have to use CX or BA to redeem for these awards in this case.
Qantas agents said, Dragonair flights are not available for Qantas FFP(yet).
Sep 2, 2009, 7:39 am
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Do you have problems redeeming awards on any other Dragonair routes?
Oct 11, 2011, 12:43 am
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I resurrect this old thread.
I have problem when I try to book Dragonair flight between Hong Kong(HKG) and Qingdao(TAO), China.
Both Cathay's and BAEC's websites show as available (4 business class seats) and even AAdvantage has access to the award seat when I called to them.
But, Qantas FF agents(I called them 4 times) say there is no availability at all.
I wonder if there is some sync problem with Dragonair system. Do you have any idea?
I have problem when I try to book Dragonair flight between Hong Kong(HKG) and Qingdao(TAO), China.
Both Cathay's and BAEC's websites show as available (4 business class seats) and even AAdvantage has access to the award seat when I called to them.
But, Qantas FF agents(I called them 4 times) say there is no availability at all.
I wonder if there is some sync problem with Dragonair system. Do you have any idea?
Oct 13, 2011, 8:45 pm
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I resurrect this old thread.
I have problem when I try to book Dragonair flight between Hong Kong(HKG) and Qingdao(TAO), China.
Both Cathay's and BAEC's websites show as available (4 business class seats) and even AAdvantage has access to the award seat when I called to them.
But, Qantas FF agents(I called them 4 times) say there is no availability at all.
I wonder if there is some sync problem with Dragonair system. Do you have any idea?
I have problem when I try to book Dragonair flight between Hong Kong(HKG) and Qingdao(TAO), China.
Both Cathay's and BAEC's websites show as available (4 business class seats) and even AAdvantage has access to the award seat when I called to them.
But, Qantas FF agents(I called them 4 times) say there is no availability at all.
I wonder if there is some sync problem with Dragonair system. Do you have any idea?
if you had an AA account you could ring and see if they can see availability. if they can then there might be a problem with the qf system...
but generally there days there doesn't seem to be any problem booking ka or cx flights via AFDC, at least for popular intra-Asian flights I have been booking recently suck as pek/pvg/bkk/sin and hkg and vv.
Oct 13, 2011, 9:03 pm
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I've looked a couple of months back (am MPO) and saw that availability too. Of course I dunno AHO's dates of travel.
but generally there days there doesn't seem to be any problem booking ka or cx flights via AFDC, at least for popular intra-Asian flights I have been booking recently suck as pek/pvg/bkk/sin and hkg and vv.
Oct 13, 2011, 9:24 pm
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according to google the AFDC is either:
aid to families with dependent children... or the alternative fuels and advanced vehicle data centre of the us department of energy. exactly what you'd want for your autocorrect...
Oct 14, 2011, 4:56 am
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Thank you for all your replies.
As I wrote, AA, CX, BA could see the availability, but not QF agents.
More oddly I could see KA C award availability between HKG-TAO on QF website on the date I wanted to travel after I have "hacked" the source of HTML page, but same problem. Not bookable.
it is possible that cx has more availability in it's system, as might baec if the earlier posts still hold true. and it is possible therefore that seats might not be available to other partners.
if you had an AA account you could ring and see if they can see availability. if they can then there might be a problem with the qf system...
but generally there days there doesn't seem to be any problem booking ka or cx flights via AFDC, at least for popular intra-Asian flights I have been booking recently suck as pek/pvg/bkk/sin and hkg and vv.
if you had an AA account you could ring and see if they can see availability. if they can then there might be a problem with the qf system...
but generally there days there doesn't seem to be any problem booking ka or cx flights via AFDC, at least for popular intra-Asian flights I have been booking recently suck as pek/pvg/bkk/sin and hkg and vv.
More oddly I could see KA C award availability between HKG-TAO on QF website on the date I wanted to travel after I have "hacked" the source of HTML page, but same problem. Not bookable.
Oct 14, 2011, 9:24 am
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Thank you for all your replies.
As I wrote, AA, CX, BA could see the availability, but not QF agents.
More oddly I could see KA C award availability between HKG-TAO on QF website on the date I wanted to travel after I have "hacked" the source of HTML page, but same problem. Not bookable.
As I wrote, AA, CX, BA could see the availability, but not QF agents.
More oddly I could see KA C award availability between HKG-TAO on QF website on the date I wanted to travel after I have "hacked" the source of HTML page, but same problem. Not bookable.
perhaps a call and request to speak to a supervisor, or have a supervisor speak to IT. if a seat is there across all those programs then it should be bookable for qf...